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Education Minister Bandula Gunawardhana calls for catalytic role at UNESCO

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Representative of Sri Lanka on the Executive Board and Education Minister Bandula Gunawardhana stressed the importance of UNESCO not limiting itself to a mere technical assistance provider but to instead transform itself into a catalytic institution which would be able to facilitate the sharing of best practices of member states, especially in the areas of disseminating digital education software with possible funding assistance for translation and printing of educational books and reading material.

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Canada, UK target SL on C’wealth front

Prof. Peiris fumes over proposals targeting govt. September 29, 2011, 12:00 pm By Shamindra Ferdinando The Sri Lankan government yesterday (29) alleged that a small but influential section of the Commonwealth was carry ...

Commonwealth could split–sl

Friday, 30 September 2011 01:04 By Dianne Silva The Sri Lankan government which rejected a move by the Commonwealth Ministerial  Action Group to appoint a Commissioner on Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law said ...

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